Erin and Jacob’s little boy Finley was born with a severe form of spina bifida. The first time parents discovered his condition at their 20-week anatomy scan, changing their lives forever. Click here to read his story.

20 July 2022.

The Royal Children’s Hospital is seeing an increase in demand for our services, along with high acuity in our patients and increasing levels of staff illness. This is impacting wait times for our services as well as some planned surgeries.

18 July 2022.

Anthony was born with a congenital arm abnormality, leaving him with a shortened left forearm and no fingers or thumb on his left hand, but he has never let this stand in the way of aiming high. In just a few weeks, the 16-year-old will be living out his dream of representing Australia at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

13 July 2022.

The Royal Children’s Hospital is committed to fairness, inclusion, respect and the celebration of diversity. We are proud to deliver a Gender Service recognised as one of the world’s best, and even prouder of the young people and their families who declare their identity and seek our support.

20 June 2022.

The RCH National Child Health Poll report found the pandemic had significant negative mental health impacts.

17 June 2022.

Dr Rowena Coutts has strong Victorian ties, so it’s no surprise that her connections to The Royal Children’s Hospital began before her time on the RCH board.

7 June 2022.

Selfless sacrifice. That’s how parents Bol Kuol and Kristine Justo describe the volunteer work of ward “grandparent” Dina Milesi, who spends nine hours a week at the RCH with their “miracle” son.

31 May 2022.

The State Government has announced the appointment of Dr Rowena Coutts as the new Chair of The Royal Children’s Hospital Board, effective 1 July.

26 May 2022.